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Taking note of Commission on Human Rights resolution 1994/76 of 9 March 1994, 6/ and recalling
Commission resolutions 1992/S-1/1 of 14 August 1992, 7/ 1992/S-2/1 of 1 December 1992 8/ and 1993/7 of
23 February 1993, 9/
Taking note of the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the
situation of human rights in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, 10/ in which he stated that the situation in
Kosovo had deteriorated further in the course of the past six months, as well as his earlier reports, 11/ in
which he described the various discriminatory measures taken in the legislative, administrative and judicial areas,
acts of violence and arbitrary arrests perpetrated against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo and the continuing
deterioration of the human rights situation in Kosovo, including:
(a)
Police brutality against ethnic Albanians, the killing of ethnic Albanians resulting from such
violence, arbitrary searches, seizures and arrests, forced evictions, torture and ill-treatment of detainees and
discrimination in the administration of justice;
(b)
Discriminatory and arbitrary dismissals of ethnic Albanian civil servants, notably from the
ranks of the police and the judiciary, mass dismissals of ethnic Albanians, confiscation and expropriation of their
properties, discrimination against Albanian pupils and teachers, the closing of Albanian-language secondary
schools and university, as well as the closing of all Albanian cultural and scientific institutions;
(c)
The harassment and persecution of political parties and associations of ethnic Albanians and
their leaders and activities, maltreating and imprisoning them;
(d)
The intimidation and imprisonment of ethnic Albanian journalists and the systematic harassment
and disruption of the news media in the Albanian language;
(e)
The dismissals from clinics and hospitals of doctors and members of other categories of the
medical profession of Albanian origin;
6/ See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1994, Supplement No. 4 and corrigendum
(E/1994/24 and Corr.1), chap. II, sect. A.
7/
Ibid., 1992, Supplement No. 2A (E/1992/22/Add.1/Rev.1), chap. II.
8/
See E/1992/22/Add.2-E/CN.4/1992/84/Add.2.
9/ See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1993, Supplement No. 3 (E/1993/23),
chap. II, sect. A.
10/ A/49/641-S/1994/1252, annex.
11/ E/CN.4/1993/50 and E/CN.4/1994/110.
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